Donner 39-Inch Electric Guitar Starter Kit with Solid Body, HSS Pickup, Accessories, Amplifier, Lessons, and Digital Tuner - Red

I got this Donner electric guitar kit and it’s honestly an amazing starter set for the price. The guitar looks great with that classic sunburst finish, and it feels solid and well-made. It’s comfortable to play and perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to practice at home. What really makes this kit stand out is that it comes with everything you need—including a mini amplifier, tuner, strap, picks, cable, and even a capo. You can literally start playing right out of the box. The amp is compact but works really well for practice, and the sound quality is great for a beginner setup. Overall, this is such a great value and a perfect all-in-one kit if you’re starting your guitar journey. Highly recommend!

Great guitar. Good value. Nice sound. Comes with accessories. Beginner friendly. Ready to play

Amazing starter guitar kit. I have been playing with this kit for about 2 years now and it have surpassed my expectations. The sound quality is perfect and easy to tune and adjust. The ease of playability as a newcomer was amazing and I couldn't ask for a better preforming beginner guitar.

School teacher here. This is an excellent instrument, and even the brand’s logo has a cool retro, classic-rock vibe. The bass is fully adjustable, exceptionally well-built, and offers a level of quality that can easily stand alongside a Fender P-Bass. One thing that really stands out is its durability. These basses are incredibly resilient and can handle the bumps and drops that inevitably happen in school settings. The tuners are stable, hold pitch well, and the instrument offers all the adjustability you’d expect from a much more expensive bass. I’ve become a big fan of Donner and regularly recommend their instruments to my students. In the video, I’m playing my Donner P-bass strung with DR Neon Strings, and the tone is fantastic. For beginners, students, and even experienced players looking for a reliable instrument, this bass is an outstanding value. Highly recommended!

awesome! High cost efficiency

Great for a beginner, but you might wanna get some new and better strings put on it for the best experience. Definitely a solid build, it's got a clean fretboard out of the box and is overall good for the price!

Easy to tune, quick set up and sounds great!

My daughter has been interested in playing. I initially let her use one of my guitars, but my les paul and my strat are kind of too nice for a beginner learner guitar, so I wanted to find something she could lug around without me worrying about my babies. I was just going to buy a squire strat at Guitar Center and I stumbled on this package. I have to say, for the price, you get a lot of value. The little bluetooth amp actually sounds decent. It's not gonna blow the roof off, but for practice its perfectly fine. The guitar is a strat copy and it plays fairly well just right out of the box. The fit and finish were flawless. The color looks amazing too. Clip on tuner, strap, extra strings, capo, bag, picks, like good luck getting all that anywhere for this price. I plugged the guitar into my Marshall and played it just fine. The action is a bit high but that can be adjusted and for a beginner I think its great. Tuners feel a little dinky so if anything I might spend $15 on a set of decent tuners, but it's lightweight and sounds good.

The guitar Taking a chance on an unknown company can bring joy or sadness. Sometimes it’ll bring plenty of either, and on a rare occasion both. I’m happy to say that Donner is bringing joy with their Standard Series. Though I’ll be honest right off the bat; they saved money in the finish work. What I mean by that is there’s some small (I couldn’t even properly photograph them) blemishes in the wood, and a spot on the upper horn where something hit the finish at the factory (which is photographed). The wood blemishes are all small and what I like to think of as freckles. Personally I like it, a lot. The matching though, for what appears to be a 5-piece body is really, really good. Doing a sunburst on this cheap a guitar is a bold move and I’d say it’s executed better then I’d expect. Besides a few bits that are too small to warrant the cost of a refinish it’s done really well. Of course the other cost-cutting area was in the fretwork. They’re sharp. Not unplayably so, and to be fair to Donner it’s a lot easier for a customer to file their frets (this should be included in a good professional setup anyway) than it is to say replace a shoddy input jack, or bad pickups. From here things only get better. It plays, sounds, and feels just like an HSS Strat. It’s definitely on the bright side, and the humbucker is pretty hot but things do sound very good and decidedly Fenderish. You won’t see people plugging their ears if you pull this out at a gig. The neck finish is a beautifully smooth satin, and the rosewood fingerboard is nice and thick. The factory setup is very playable, the tuners hold a tuning quite well and appear to be an area where money was spent, which is smart. The quality of the tuners, bridge, and electronics do seem to be pretty close to instruments costing much more. It even holds it’s tune reasonably well if you use the whammy bar a reasonable amount. It won’t hold if you’re divebombing like it’s a Floyd Rose but if you just add some vibrato here and there and tune up after the song it’s really not bad at all. It seems pretty clear to me that they knew where to cut cost (small finish and wood blemishes, fretwork) and where to invest (electronics, tuners, great wood grain matching on the front, hardware) and it adds up to an impressively passable guitar for most guitarists. For less then a Squier guitar of any sort you could buy this whole pack and pay for a pro setup and have something just as good. That’s a pretty big win if you ask me. And this is just personal taste but I like the gold logo and headstock shape. It’s a handsome Strat that doesn’t try to deviate wildly from the classic formula. The Amp This thing is small and has no right to sound as good as it does. For me this is the highlight of the pack right here. For a beginner this is way better then the awful Squier amp I started with. It’s not very loud but that’s not necessarily a bad thing! There’s enough volume for a personal jam, an aux-in and headphone out. So not only can you jam with it, it can also be a portable speaker! The distortion is great too. Flip a switch on the back and you’ll find something that ranges from gritty to gnarly. While there’s not a lot of tonal variety in the amp it’s a very good rock/blues sort of tone and again miles better then what you’d expect from a plastic amp that can fit in a gig bag and charge off your phone’s charger. It also makes the possibilities kind of endless. Camping, playing in a field under the moonlight, rocking out on a boat or in the backyard, busking in the busy streets, and so on. It’s honestly worth a standalone purchase and is going to stay in my arsenal until the day it dies. Very few pieces of gear get that luxury. The Case I wish it opened all the way so it could open up like a book. Instead you have to slide your guitar in and out like you would in a laptop sleeve. The padding is decent though. There’s comfy shoulder straps, and a handle that’s attached to both sides. While it’s slightly less convenient to use then some gig bags there’s a much much smaller chance that a zipper failure would ever occur and if it did your guitar is probably going to stay put. So it does its job quite well. And let’s put it this way, I’ve had guitars costing 2-3x this price come with no gig-bag or at best one that’s comparable in quality, with the only exception being the Gibson Les Paul Junior I once bought. It cost 4x what this whole rig costs, but the gig bag was one of the nicest I’ve come across. Usually you just get what amounts to a fancy plastic bag with starter guitars so I’m very glad they included a quality gig bag that you can actually use for gigs. Accessories Everything here is decent. Honestly the value here seems to exceed the price. Nothing is particularly special but to get everything you’ve got here separately could eat up half the price of the guitar. Throw in a good case, portable amp, and a whole guitar and it does seem to be a great value. In Conclusion Interestingly enough this kit actually hits a pretty large audience. For a beginner this is an absolutely perfect kit with everything they’ll need. The guitar is a strat through and through. It plays like one, it looks like one, and it sounds like one. While the fret edges being sharp is a detriment to any player it’s really livable if you’re not a shredder. Not only that but fret filing is super easy to do. With such a low price tag this guitar also would work well for someone wanting to learn how to do proper setup and maintenance of a guitar. Modding may be a little tricky but everything appears to be sized similarly to a Fender/Squier Strat. It also fits the working musician very well. As it needs minimal setup work out of the box, sounds good, comes with a battery-powered amp that can be used for busking, and at this price who cares if a drunk dancer knocks it off the side of the stage at a gig? They called it the Standard Series and to us musicians those words mean something. They mean this is the guitar that you can just grab off the shelf and use in any situation. It may not be the best of the range but it’s going to be good in all cases. Outside the fret edges and the natural flaws of a Strat this does that. Is it better then an American or Mexican Fender? No, but it’ll happily compete with any guitar in its price range and will give some of the slightly more expensive instruments a run for their money. If it were priced higher I’d probably knock a star off for its sharp frets but at this price and with all that’s included the fact that it’s so usable and that applies to everything included in the kit it just feels wrong to rate it at less then 5 stars.

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I recently got the Donner DST-100T Electric Guitar Kit in Lake Blue, and I must say, I am absolutely smitten. To start off, the guitar looks gorgeous in person — definitely a beautiful color. It feels good to hold; it’s a little heavy, but still comfortable, and the overall build quality is surprisingly solid for the price. The packaging was also really nice, with extra wrapping that left almost no chance for scratches during delivery. The full kit includes everything you need to get started: a digital tuner, four picks — 0.46 mm and 0.71 mm (two of each), a capo, extra strings, a mini amp and cable, a whammy bar and hex keys with a small pouch to hold them, a guitar strap, and a pretty good guitar case. The sound quality of the guitar is really good, especially for beginners. It sounds clean and is super convenient since the kit includes all the necessary accessories. The only downside is the amp — it works fine, but the sound quality could definitely be better. Overall, I’d definitely recommend this guitar kit to anyone looking for an affordable first electric guitar.

My son loved it. He is a beginner

As a retiree with little or no musical knowledge (or talent ) decided to take up guitar and did not want to spend a huge amount and not stick with it. Spent weeks going back and forth through various sites. Settled on this one after advice from an amateur guitar player. This comes with its own case which is a little low quality - ok as a dust cover but that’s about it. Spare strings, some pics and a small amp plus cable. Also a small attachment to clip on when tuning the guitar. I have been very pleased as a complete novice - and it’s been absolutely ideal just to learn the very basics. I went ahead and got a stand and a solid case to protect it. To be completely transparent I am not a musician but always had a deep love of music. I find the instrument is comfortable, love the metallic blue finish and find with my very limited knowledge the strings stay in tune with some minor tweaks after several sessions. A skilled long term guitarist would probably find massive issues, as it doesn’t cost thousands from a big maker. But I am very happy with it as a complete starter which is exactly who it is aimed at I think the price is a fair for what you are getting and It makes me smile so good value. I will invest in a top end instrument once my skill level improves. Overall if you are thinking about it GO FOR IT !!